holocaust, 1939-1945

Explores the misconceptions about the horrors inflicted on Jewish people by the Nazi regime, answering the most basic, yet vexing questions, such as, "Why didn't more Jews fight back? or "Why didn't they receive more help?" as a way of challenginge popular views of history, as well as recent interpretations of the Holocaust.

Hanneke lives in Amsterdam in 1943 in the midst of World War II. She juggles the dangers of secretly securing and selling goods on the black market with hiding her work from her parents while grieving the death of her boyfriend at the hands of the Nazis. But life becomes even more harrowing when a women convinces Hanneke to find a missing Jew she's been hiding in her home.

Torn from his home and parents in Poland during World War II, a young Jewish boy starving in a concentration camp finds hope in playing Schubert on his harmonica, even when the commandant orders him to play.

After the Nazis take his parents away, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, the head of an orphanage, who tries to help Aron escape before he is sent to Treblinka.

Features seven true stories of brave boys and girls who lived through the Holocaust. Their compelling accounts are based on exclusive, personal interviews with the survivors. Using real names, dates and places, these stories are factual versions of their recollections.

Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.

Provides a graphic novel retelling of the diary Anne Frank kept while she and her family were in hiding in the Secret Annex during the Holocaust.

An adaptation of the journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describing both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

Combination of personal narratives and official documents describing deportation, incarceration, death, and survival in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.

From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.